Kokshetau in context: Street-network sprawl trends

The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Kokshetau plotted against Aqmola and Kazakhstan. The SNDi of new construction in Kokshetau followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, compared to Aqmola which peaked in 1991-2005 and Kazakhstan which rose steadily. Most recently, Kokshetau's incremental SNDi rose from 2.06 to 2.4 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Kokshetau ranked 1st out of 2 cities in Aqmola and 7th out of 32 in Kazakhstan as of 2020.

Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.

What about similarly populated cities?

• Tazumoddin, Bangladesh
• Trondheim, Norway
• Garhi Habibullah, Pakistan
• Jiaohe, China
• Jianshui, China
• Tuz Khormato, Iraq

In new street additions, Kokshetau fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Tazumoddin fluctuated in its street-construction patterns and Jiaohe built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. For the full network, Kokshetau became progressively more disconnected, while Tazumoddin became more connected from 1975 through 1976-1990, then grew more sprawly from 1976-1990 onwards and Jiaohe grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Notably, Kokshetau had a more sprawly network than Jiaohe in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.